Beginner Exercise 137 / Attempts

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White to play.

Zephi: Black already looks pretty alive on the right (and I suppose it would be pretty disaterous for white if he linked up the two groups). However, it looks like white can put black into a state of terminal atari on the left (since it's white first.) I think it would look something like this:

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This may be simplistic, but it looks like it could work.


Niklaus: What do you mean by terminal atari? The best I see for white is a ko to capture three stones on the right.

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Ko


The same can be achieved without the W1,B2 exchange:

[Diagram]

Black does not want to play ko for the group on the left


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